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Memories of Brantford's Jewish Community Christina Han is unearthing and preserving Brantford’s diverse immigrant history. She collaborated with the Canadian Industrial Heritage Centre, the Ontario Jewish Archives, the Brant Museum and Archives, Brant Theatre Workshops and her students to create Memories of Brantford’s Jewish Community, a November 2019 exhibition featuring historical artifacts, live readings and walking tours. -
Career Crossroads Getting to where you want to be in your career is not always as linear as we might think. Not everyone picks one career path and sticks to it for the rest of their lives, and lots of people are confused about what they want out of their career. On Career Crossroads, host Jonathan Collaton explores the stories of everyday people who have made pivots along their career journey. Starting with the question "what did you want to be when you grew up?", they discuss all the jobs they have had, the people that influenced them, and both the expected and unexpected decisions that led them to their present career. -
Hard Road to Victory: The Chatham All-Stars Story This historical nonfiction children's book tells the story of the 1934 Chatham All-Stars. This team of all-Black athletes competed for and won the Ontario baseball championships 13 years before Jackie Robinson broke the colour barrier. -
Ripper’s Whitechapel: The Digital Humanities and Perceptions of Space in late-Victorian England Victorian Whitechapel is synonymous with Jack the Ripper and not much else. And yet this was a vibrant, complex, and multifaceted community. This pilot project looks at newspaper representations of Whitechapel before, during, and after the 1888 murders. The heart of the project is an interactive map that tracks stories about Whitechapel associated with a specific location, and charts whether they were positive, negative, or neutral. In this way, users can get a fuller picture the place of this fascinating neighborhood in popular culture. -
The Libellus de Patientia Project This digital humanities resource provides several open access sources for the Libellus de patientia, a treatise composed in 1524 by the Dutch humanist Cornelius Aurelius (d.1531) while he was in prison suspected of Lutheran sympathies. -
Maple Leaf Route Webinar Series The Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada (formerly the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies), in partnership with the Canadian Battlefields Foundation and the Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society and the Juno Beach Centre Association, presented the Maple Leaf Route Webinar Series. Airing every two weeks, from May to September, the series followed Canadian and British Commonwealth soldiers as they landed on D-Day in June 1944 and fought their way inland at the Battle of Normandy. -
The Great Battles in History Podcast Great Battles in History explores some of the most famous battles in world history. Each three- to four-hour episode dives deeply into a single battle, investigating its origins, the course of combat, and the outcomes. -
The One Market Podcast The One Market podcast was launched in March 2020 as a way to help keep the Laurier Brantford community connected as we worked, learned, and taught remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the course of one year, it aired 35 episodes featuring 111 guests, 43 of whom were students or alumni, 37 were staff, and 31 were faculty or librarians. The podcast featured a special episode focused on Homecoming, produced with Development & Alumni Relations, as well as a series of special episodes featuring segments produced by fourth-year capstone students in the Digital Media and Journalism program. Between 2020 and 2021, the podcast was downloaded more than 3,200 times by about 1,700 unique listeners. It received a Minister’s Award of Excellence from the Ontario Ministry of College and Universities in October 2020, one of 39 recipients selected from more than 260 submissions in the areas of digital transformation and community impact for its work in keeping the Laurier Brantford community connected. -
Design to Engage: How to Create and Facilitate a Great Learning Experience For Any Group Design to Engage is a “how to” book that will help you become an effective designer and facilitator of learning events. -
Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary Culture: The Backward Gaze Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary Culture: The Backward Gaze examines a series of twentieth- and twenty-first-century fictional works that adapt Greco-Roman myths of the catabasis, the heroic journey to the underworld. -
Our Voices Must be Heard: Women and the Vote Ontario On Election Day 1844, seven widows cast ballots in Canada West, a display of feminist effrontery that was quickly punished: the government struck a law excluding women from the vote. It would be seven decades before women began to regain voting rights in Ontario.
